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33 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfIs Joaquin Phoenix putting us on? After watching the terrifying, near-brilliant exposé I'm Still Here, in which the Oscar nominee's public and private unraveling becomes a sick joke, the question doesn't matter.
- 91Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanAn artful piece of exploitation vérité.
- 80New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinThere's a thrilling madness to Phoenix's Method.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertA sad and painful documentary that serves little useful purpose other than to pound another nail into the coffin. Here is a gifted actor who apparently by his own decision has brought desolation upon his head.
- 75Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMiami HeraldRene RodriguezRegardless of its veracity, this portrait of a drug-addled star who just wants to express himself artistically contains implications that exceed the filmmakers' intentions.
- 70VarietyLeslie FelperinVarietyLeslie FelperinAn utterly fascinating experiment that apparently blends real and faked material to examine notions of celebrity, mental stability and friendship.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterThis sporadically engrossing mockumentary, which gets better as it rolls along, must have been planned way back before Phoenix bombed on "Late Show With David Letterman."
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceAt once deeply felt and devastatingly cynical, I'm Still Here's bone-dry satire couldn't exist without the celebrity media feedback loop. But its apparent attack on the Hollywood machine is so insidery, so vicious, that to us-the everyday consumer-it's just not clear why this stunt needed to exist at all.
- 0Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsRarely has the question of a documentary's artifice mattered less. I genuinely hated this picture, almost as much as I've admired Phoenix's work in everything from "Gladiator" to "Walk the Line" and even the hackneyed but affecting "Two Lovers."